Riot Games has simply revealed the most recent agent coming to its well-liked tactical shooter. Shown off throughout the finals of Valorant’s Masters Reykjavík event on Sunday, Fade is a shadowy bounty hunter that hails from Turkey. “I’ve seen your darkest fears,” she declares ominously in her agent trailer. “Mine would eat them alive.”
In designing Fade, Riot’s Nicholas Smith stated the studio’s intent was to create a foil to Sova, beforehand the sport’s solely scouting-focused agent. “Fade brings recon to a personal level, more potent in a localized area,” Smith stated. “Haunt,” one in every of her major skills, means that you can throw an orb that reveals the placement of enemy brokers caught in its line of sight. Fade additionally has a capability known as Prowler that sends out a creature that seeks out enemy brokers. If an enemy participant is hit by the nightmare, they’re left quickly nearsighted. Fade can even quickly immobilize enemies along with her Seize skill.
Fade will be part of Valorant’s roster with the discharge of Episode Four, Act Three, which Riot is anticipated to launch subsequent week.